broken images

[boneskull]

Here's an example from mochajs/mocha#2621

[boneskull]

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[kborchers]

In my initial investigation, this appears to be a GitHub issue so I don't think there is anything we can do to fix it. The URLs used for badges get translated by GitHub to something like

https://camo.githubusercontent.com/c078cb332efb91b04d4ffb7040067f8ae856e52d/68747470733a2f2f636c612e6a732e666f756e646174696f6e2f70756c6c2f62616467652f7369676e6564

I assume this is to protect our application from people directly linking to our images which is a good thing. Unfortunately, it looks like that link translation breaks occasionally and I don't really see any identifiable pattern as to what would cause it.

For example, here is a broken one in an email I tracked down.

https://ci3.googleusercontent.com/proxy/YlLV_hB3p529bZ9GXAC8EJF4jNaYZWHZIAiModoCCwHLfSSbXRY6PVLD8H-47U4HXkKmCBraT-8-cu6b3_DoL4S3Mo1g3cFQq3aCIMkkf9vbOf_PUEwiArS4sI9wj744rGGivjvUGssZDeNp3AKMi0G3w11gGDMo9dmf3ESGpsE398x9BK1of4h1EYxlOaT6p250XWnP5rH_r3txuow8roivXCu8q2d7u02GOJX2w5BJPFE625DEPuMTplDnnPSixw=s0-d-e1-ft#https://camo.githubusercontent.com/246c4bf37547ead9332a6afcd321d7f65edb2fe3/68747470733a2f2f636c612e6a732e666f756e646174696f6e2f70756c6c2f62616467652f6e6f745f7369676e6564

which is really strange because there is a working URL after the hash

https://camo.githubusercontent.com/246c4bf37547ead9332a6afcd321d7f65edb2fe3/68747470733a2f2f636c612e6a732e666f756e646174696f6e2f70756c6c2f62616467652f6e6f745f7369676e6564

which is what shows on GitHub now in the issue. My guess is those broken images may be a temporary issue shortly after the PR/issue is formed and then they are corrected internally at GitHub after some time but that is just a guess. I'm not sure if there is any resolution beyond this so I would like to close it but let me know if you have additional thoughts or ideas about a way we could fix this on our end.